National Affairs: Fear Under Floodlights

The witness in the packed, TV-floodlighted Senate Caucus Room trembled
with fright as he told his story to stern-faced Senator John McClellan
and the labor-management rackets investigating committee. What brawny
ex-Lumberman George Francis Heid, 35, was afraid of was not the power
of the U.S. Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It
was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor
union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against
Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals
by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with a pledge of protection...